Chap. 924.—An ACT forthe relief of Sallie Gibson, the widow of a Confederate
soldier, of Bath county.

Approved March 4, 1598.

Whereas Stephen Gibson, a wounded Confederate soldier of Captain
Irome’s company, of Bath, was a true and gallant soldier during the late
war; was loyal to Virginia, and was severely wounded in battle: and

Whereas he departed this life and left behind his widow, 5 Sallie Gib-
son, In needy circumstances in her old age, she now being eighty-odd
years old: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Bath county shall examine into the condition of the above-
named Sallie Gibson, the widow of a Confederate soldier; and if it be
that he, Stephen Gibson, was true and loval to Virginia through the
war, and that she, Sallie ‘Gibson, his widow, is old and enfeebled and
incapacitated for manual labor, and that she is needy and poor, and
should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Bath should
send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of publie accounts of Vir-
ginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to place the name
of Sallie M. Gibson on the pension list, and pay her annually the sum of
fifteen dollars, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.